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Re: deleting a database
Jose Correia (J):
> Hi all
> it might sound stupid, but how does one delete an entire database so
> that one can rebuild it from scratch by running a new .ldif file?
> I've looked at ldapdelete but it only seems to delete nodes...?
make shure slapd is stopped (e.g. '/etc/init.d/openldap stop')
and then you can just do a 'rm /var/lib/ldap-ldbm/*'
or whatever you've configured to be your directorypath for your
> I've also tried deleting the contents in the database directory (after
> stopping slapd) and then restarting slapd and running my ldif file
> again... but it somehow still picks up the previous data.
Make sure you've really no slapd-processes running before you do a delete.
After deleting the contents as you claim, and described above, do an
offline import using the `slapadd` program with your new .ldif file.
Bjørn Ove Grøtan